Probably shouldn't have announced that shop lifting won't be prosecuted in the first place. Now all these extra security measures will make store ownership costs skyrocket. Need to make the cost of theft too high to do without fear of severe consequences .

@thegreatandterrible4508

3 ай бұрын

That's not exactly unintentional. You have to look at who a policy benefits.

@1erinjames

3 ай бұрын

@@thegreatandterrible4508 that and end result desired by the new system.

Axon should remove the mute buttons from police worn cameras.

@fedexguynv

2 ай бұрын

I as a retired officer wore 3 different versions of Axon there is no mute button on the camera body. There is a 30 second delay in audio because it has a active 30 second no audio record loop so when you activate it. It will show 30 seconds prior so you see the initial reason for it's activation. It can't do audio because it would drain it during the shift. Audio recording is a horrific power consumer.

This is funny. The thing is - regular people react to these and are annoyed - if I want to buy item and need to go through multiple hoops, call an employee to "unlock" something or whatever, I will go online and shop like that. Thief does not mind if he/she is recorded or whatever. They will just grab thing, destroy the package, etc. Your camera will not help you. Axon is the company building these cameras, so they are not exactly impartial.

@1erinjames

3 ай бұрын

When online is all we are trained to feel comfortable with, refusal of service for noncompliance increases.

@rklauco

3 ай бұрын

@@1erinjames Well, there's the problem - I am not a thief, yet all the shops treat me like one - random bag search, beepers all over the place that the seller is unable to remove and I beep like a thief on my way out, need to ask seller to unlock a plastic box with USB key worth $10, ... I can go on and on. No theft is prevented by any of these measures, it's just me, regular paying customer, being punished for getting into a physical shop. What other option is there for me then?

@1erinjames

3 ай бұрын

@@rklauco I'm treated like a thief everywhere I go!!! Stalked by loss prevention or employees. I've never stolen anything since I was 5 years old. I've experienced everything you listed in your comment. It's all part of the program you push people online so there aren't choices eventually.

@rklauco

3 ай бұрын

@@1erinjames Not sure about your experience, but I have far more choices online than I have in any physical shop...

@Fastgt2003

3 ай бұрын

they help when people fight with workers not stealing .

Maybe its best to remove the law that says you cant be prosecuted for theft if the value is less than 1K. lol

Surveillance capitalism

@clusterstage

3 ай бұрын

If Google Glass was marketed this way, it would've stayed in the market.

Most physical retail stores in big cities will close in the near future. They will mostly go online or go out of business.

@JuvenalMena

3 ай бұрын

In the meantime, what?

Nice ad

I can appreciate that retail crime is getting out of control and I've even been personally impacted by many neighborhood store closures. But I'm not walking into a store where I'm being recorded all the time. That's like going to shop in a prison. The thing they don't realize is that the thieves _don't_ care. They are pretty brazen these days. 😒

This will only work on people who have a sense of shame.

@kittytrail

3 ай бұрын

that's such a racist assertion... 😅

@LiyhaMarie

3 ай бұрын

@@kittytrailhuh?

@kittytrail

3 ай бұрын

@@LiyhaMarie looks like some don't have a sense of shame and it's horrendously racist to point it out. also looks like some here are a few bricks shy of a load... 🤭

@briarrose29

3 ай бұрын

@@kittytraillooks like you’re the one with racist assumptions. Sad

@kittytrail

3 ай бұрын

@@briarrose29 and you're the one missing the point... 🙄

The quote “holistic approach” the problem. Keep the creeps off the streets. This is all nonsense, because it assumes that the thieves have a fear of being incarcerated and arrested, they don’t because that doesn’t happen. On any typical day, you can see someone walk into a Walgreens, for example, and just load up a backpack with whatever they want and walk right out while everyone is watching and and all the cameras are pointing at them , nothing happens. At least in Seattle, thieves are not afraid of being arrested whatsoever, regardless of whatever cameras, or whatever else you have. The silver bullet is incarcerating thieves

@kittytrail

3 ай бұрын

the copper jacketed lead one is cheaper and more effective than your silver one. 😏

@SamGib

3 ай бұрын

​​@@kittytrail It's cheaper on the surface but someone still need to deal the after math. Worst is it done half the job and now he needs medical.

@kittytrail

3 ай бұрын

@@SamGib either let Woody the woodchippin' woodchipper do it or Soylentgreen™ 'em to stack the shelves along with that nutritious insect powder in their 'hood, that would be a great way for them to give something back to the community i'd say... 🤫

In my opinion this is only furthering the unbalance between those that have a body cam and might be able to start recording and that that are on the other side of that camera. So the only way to have balance of force everyone needs to have a body cam that can be started anytime. Not sure that I want to live in such a society….

Start with suggesting the root social reasons as to why this behaviour is acceptable in the minds of the perps.

To whoever made this ad, realise this: making employees wear cameras only captures evidence of violence, it doesn't solve or address the underlying societal cause of such violence.

@xnoshutdownx

3 ай бұрын

exactly.

People are getting nasty as the years go by. Like you'll be more surprised these days if you see people helping someone

Retail Crimes were rapidly increasing in USA and especially in California State

@kittytrail

3 ай бұрын

when you have 13% of the population doing 90% of the thefts, it's easier to remove the root cause than to prevent 'em from being thieves. especially when you havecthe same ones organizing "theft prevention"... 🙄

Speaking to an employee about those small motion-activated camera systems that look at specific aisles and flash lights for recording, apparently they have absolutely no theft prevention effect. He frequently has to restock the shelves and finds the empty packages, so I don't doubt him. All these techniques and technologies are focused on the wrong thing: they are trying to prevent the effects of the problem, rather than addressing the source. Much like sucking on cough drops when you have pneumonia, it's not actually going to solve the problem, only make you feel better for a short time. Make the laws such that the justice system requires each and every stolen item be repaid, by force if necessary, by the thief at 10 times the value of the item, plus extra if they do other crimes like assault, trespassing, or property damage. This should be an automatic process, as easy for the government to execute the charges as they currently do with speeding tickets. If you decide that you can't deal with all the influx of new theft cases, introduce a randomized system. Every time they get caught, there's a 1 in 20 chance that they have to pay 100 times the value of the item, and do mandatory jail time. The time to take a "wholistic" (weak) approach to crime is not AFTER the crime is committed. Figure out why people are stealing or breaking the law and then help others who have the same circumstance that will likely lead to a life of crime. Don't show the already serial criminals that you have no intention of holding them accountable. You'll just get more behavior of the same sort. Basic human behavior, guys.

@wright96d

3 ай бұрын

Congratulations, you traded one cough drop for another

@dwighthouse

3 ай бұрын

@@wright96d What do you mean by this?

@AdamBechtol

2 ай бұрын

Nice ideas.

This is dumb 😅

this is wack asf i hope all these big corporations close all their stores

@lucash7012

3 ай бұрын

The issues is businesses that don’t want to be stolen from, rather than those in society that are regularly stealing??

oh brother these guys stink !!

I get this video was a partnership with Axon, but surveillance isn't the silver bullet to solve this problem.

The narrator sounds like Pursuit Of Wonder for some reason. Is this a collab? Regardless, amazing as always!

My only concern is Axon is terrible at proprietary control. Which makes it next to impossible for the individual to use their products. As a retired LEO working as a armed security guard. Our company does not have the budget for an Axon system. So I tried to get my own to protect myself and people. However to own one individually you have to sign up and pay an extremely expensive monthly access fee. The cameras are also extremely expensive. When you contact them and you tell them it is only for you. They are not really friendly about it and seriously try to push selling the system to your company. Instead I am stuck buying crap Chinese brand body cameras that last the minimum 10 hour shift. Constantly breaking days after the warranty expires. If Axon would fix this. I would be a lifetime supporter of their equipment.

What if you make the huge stores not anchors for small towns

@JuvenalMena

3 ай бұрын

This isn't the problem 😅

@cameraman55226

3 ай бұрын

@@JuvenalMena watch the video xx

NY and CA

Maybe, we should try and address why people are stealing. I don't know, maybe helping people in impoverished communities, maybe that would be a wiser investment of money. Instead of just making shopping harder for people who don't steal. Just my 2 cents.

Offenders aren't really going to care about cameras - have to prosecute

Why would Americans need to face retail violence? Move to Asia, such things are practically unheard of here.

@dwighthouse

3 ай бұрын

Of course not. Asian cultures are more socially focused, whereas Western cultures are more individually focused. It's a spectrum, but generally Asian cultures are getting more socially focused over time (say something that the state deems "anti-social", you get disappeared and sold for organs) and the Western cultures are getting more individualistic (so more and more people don't care what others think to the point of openly stealing things because they can). Both sides probably need to more towards the center, where people can generally do most things that are safe and not actively damaging a society, but can still have respectful disagreements with government officials.

Nasdaq: AXON S&P 500 component

thieves don't care

Enforce the law. Problem solve. This is so stupid!

What about long sentences and obligatory work so prisoners pay for all the services they get when they are inside.? wouldn't that be a better solution?

That camra isnt armor and doesn't protect against anything you saw happen to those store clerks and security guards.You need hand ro hand combat training to go with that body cam😆

Then they use the camera to see if they are being productive or texting and seeing what they are texting...... Cameras aren't gonna stop someone from being aggressive or hurting someone. The cameras on the fall doesn't stop them. Why will these

I'm typing this comment based on what I think this video is going to be. Unless this thing physically stops the assailant (taser, pepper spray, a litteral bullet) it feels like the only way a body cam helps is with reducing employer liability. These people are already doing this in public stores they know has surveillance, they obviously just don't care.

No no no. Body cameras don't work to stop or reduce the severity of violent encounters with police and they have other force options retail employees don't. Just a waste of money beyond already ubiquitous security cameras.

How many of the thieves were millionaires? They spend so much time and energy on combating the symptoms, but where are the ones combating the root causes. People steal because they need the thing and they can't afford it. it's not rocket science. Sure, there are some isolated cases where people do it for the thrill, but that's another societal issue that also needs to be dealt with. But as usual, the solution is to increase your 'arsenal'.

Easily remedied. Remedy does not carry the goal.

LOL so don’t rely on the state/ law enforcement to do their job, corporations have to fill the gap 😔

tech won't solve this issue though

So when the problem is provoked by the store person (for reasons like racism) they can simply not press record and there is no evidence?

I would suggest going to the root cause of the problem why are people doing theft why not speend that amount of money an resources to improve societies to reduce poverty so that people don't need to do that kind of things.

@KendalSmithy

3 ай бұрын

Poverty is not a new phenomenon to the world, but what is new is people's attitude to it and the fact that society now thinks it's 'entitled' to state help in every aspect of life. But in fact that's only a recent innovation, propably caused by the UK with its Welfare State, created after WWII.

@faizanfazul

3 ай бұрын

@@KendalSmithyYeah, I know people should not be dependent solely on the state but the communities that are suffering from these issues can help a lot in their local scope by giving back to the people and then maybe we can control it with our collective efforts because there is no way you can control the people. After all, every time they will find a new way.

@KendalSmithy

3 ай бұрын

@@faizanfazul 'Giving back to the people' suggests those people have already given something to us, but that's not the case, they simply cheat, steal and destroy because they don't get from 'us' what 'they' think they should have received. So if the mentality of entitlement is not embedded in our children's social thinking in the first place (by parents and teachers) we might begin to solve the problem.

I shop online. Problem solved.

But there's cameras everywhere already. How is putting a camera on your person going to help? People know they are on camera anyways. Also how does this work on private property where you need permission to film?

@AdamBechtol

2 ай бұрын

Exaclty.

Fumny how this never happens where I live in Texas. Hint hint, its a suburb

Can we expect more corporate propaganda like this going forward?

@AdamBechtol

2 ай бұрын

Curious myself, if i shoudl unsub. Woulda if this was all i say.

Yeah so they can also stalk their workers. Criminals don't give 2 f's but this isn't the worst idea.

this is funny they dont care about cameras. so this is not the way

Is video admissible anymore?

@AdamBechtol

2 ай бұрын

Good question.

Ai video surveillance will easily destroy this problem… no need for such stupid hardware for such an inevitable solution.

Here's a wild concept. Make your goods and services more affordable and more reliable, reduce the artifical scarcity, and stop preying on impoverished people and communities while crying wolf because corporate profits/return for CEOs and shareholders aren't maxed out at 500%

@Armoredcody

3 ай бұрын

what about mom and pop shops?

@ianlarkin8824

3 ай бұрын

Can mom and pop shops afford these kinds of measures, and is this yt video even suggesting to be about them? No. Just like my comment wasn't about them it was about big box stores and corporations that would rather profile, surveil, police, and abuse their customer base than make reliable, repairable, fairly priced products eg. planned obsolescence. Secondly, those same mom and pop shops? Who ran them out of every town in the country? Not shoplifters, it was those same big box stores, and with red tape, legal loopholes, and other predatory business practices.

@dwighthouse

3 ай бұрын

So... make all products cheaper, more effective, and more available? With what magic technology? You can have at most one of those things at the cost of the other two. Have you ever built anything?

@metalboarn6174

3 ай бұрын

Your type is the problem

@AdamBechtol

2 ай бұрын

@@dwighthouse You could not send the bulk of profits to executives and investors.

Thank you Soros.

Democrats will be like: Stopping crime is racist, let's give Democrat voters more taxpayer money instead.